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Shelby is a great talent and her new c.d. I have not listened to this in years and it sounds sooo good. is great. I am not a C.W. fan really, but this is a great collection of sassy, strong and introspective songs.
Shelby Lynne is talented enough that they should spend more $ and really produce something memorable with real players involved. There are maybe 2 or 3 good tracks and even those are too mechanical sounding even though the vocal is quite fine. You ultimately make more $ doing it that way besides. She is a very fine singer however this is overproduced and lacks any organic quality that would come from real musicians playing real drums and bass. Hell maybe there are real musicians but it sounds sequenced.
Let it be for her listener to determine that. Except for the first annoying, obviously made for top 40 radio play , 'no lies' which i recommend evreyone immediately skip over, this album is absolutelY OUTSTANDING. Not too many females have attempted the genres that Shelby Lynne has.
This is one of the most cohesive albums that I have ever heard. Thanks to this album's brilliance I bought the rest of her catalog and the records before this one are bland and too simple. I cannot say enough good things about this album.
Its actual price of (about) $12.99 is a complete bargain. "I am Shelby Lynne" is heads and shoulders better than her earlier work. Don't pay attention to the jilted country fans in these reviews.
I first learned of Shelby Lynne in a Rolling Stone Magazine article just after this record was released and decided to seek it out. We have gotten so much mileage from the CD we should have paid $100 for it. Bravo.
Quite simply, I FEEL the emotion that she has about the song topics and talk about continuity. It is 8 years later and my wife and I still listen to this once a month.
It's because they both sing with raw emotion and passion and their lyrics are so dang profound. I can't add any better words to all the rich descriptions said about her and this album from others, except that she is one of a kind. Get all of 'em. Get this album. Anything she does is unique and connects. The only other singer/songwriter I felt drawn to because of his unique sound and story-telling is Cat Stevens.
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